DUBAI: West Indies spinner Shane Shillingford has been suspended from bowling in international cricket after his delivery action was found illegal, the game’s global governing body said yesterday.
Shillingford’s team-mate and part-time off-spinner Marlon Samuels’ bowling action while sending down his quicker deliveries has also been found illegal, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said in a statement.
Shillingford and Samuels, who have previously been suspended for suspect actions, were reported during the Mumbai Test against India last month and the duo visited Perth for a bio-mechanical analysis of their bowling actions.
“The analysis revealed that for both his (Shillingford) standard off-break delivery and his doosra, the amount of elbow extension in his bowling action exceeded the 15 degrees’ level of tolerance permitted,” the ICC said of the 30-year-old who has taken 65 wickets from
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